Munsan, Phachon

Phachon Munsan was born on September 13, 1968 in the Amphe Banphoth Pisai of Nakhon Sawan province, was the fifth child in a large family. He began to actively engage in boxing at the age of twelve, while studying in the sixth grade of the school he ran away from home, after which he fought for money in Tak and Bangkok . He was trained at the Osotpa training camp under the guidance of trainer Xiang Pong, at the same time he was a student at the Bangkali school. In Muay Thai competitions, he performed under the pseudonym Put Keitlansang ( Thai พุฒ เกียรติ ลาน สาง ).

The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 1986 season, when he joined the Thai national team and visited the President’s Cup in Jakarta, where he brought the bronze dignity prize won in the minimum weight category.

A year later, he reached the lightest weight, boxed at the King’s Cup in Bangkok, where he also received bronze: in the quarterfinals he defeated Soviet boxer Lernik Papyan , but was defeated by Korean Kim Sung Kil in the semifinals ^[1] .

Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . The first stage in the classification of the lightest weight category was overcome without a fight, then the first three rivals, representatives of Australia, Venezuela and Mongolia, successfully passed. Nevertheless, at the semi-finals stage, he met the strong American Kennedy McKinney , the future world champion among professionals, and lost him ahead of schedule in the first round, thereby receiving the bronze Olympic medal (thus becoming the only Thai athlete who managed to win the medal on these Games).

After the Seoul Olympics, Munsan for some time remained an active athlete, took part in amateur boxing and Muay Thai tournaments, although he did not achieve any significant achievements anymore. Subsequently, he graduated from the university, after the completion of his sports career he proved himself as a coach and actor ^{[2] [3]} .

• Phachon Munsan - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com